New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Materials Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Applied Sciences-Basel52012
2 IEEE Access43549
3 Sensors36118
4 Materials30080
5 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules26925
6 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces23750
7 Journal of Alloys and Compounds22782
8 Ceramics International19750
9 Electronics18898
10 Construction and Building Materials18425
11 Polymers17801
12 Advanced Functional Materials16846
13 Small15175
14 IEEE Sensors Journal14335
15 Advanced Materials12938
16 Buildings12898
17 Applied Surface Science12347
18 Nanomaterials12255
19 Advanced Science11936
20 Expert Systems With Applications11850
21 Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T11733
22 Materials Today Communications11183
23 IEEE Internet of Things Journal10987
24 Journal of Building Engineering10622
25 Journal of Materials Chemistry A10518
26 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing10149
27 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement9942
28 Journal of Physical Chemistry C9845
29 ACS Nano9693
30 ACS Applied Nano Materials9022
31 Langmuir8824
32 Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics8736
33 International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology8447
34 Materials Letters8003
35 Journal of Materials Chemistry C7602
36 Micromachines7581
37 Nanoscale7504
38 Nano Letters7323
39 Metals7318
40 Coatings7244
41 Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters6809
42 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology6739
43 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems6610
44 Journal of Applied Polymer Science6559
45 Journal of Power Sources6351
46 AIP Advances6345
47 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics6305
48 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics6128
49 Crystals5975
50 Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing5931
51 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence5914
52 Surfaces and Interfaces5909
53 ACS Applied Energy Materials5866
54 Materials Chemistry and Physics5832
55 Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance5683
56 Optical Materials5503
57 Journal of the Electrochemical Society5178
58 Microscopy and Microanalysis5163
59 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation4990
60 Advanced Energy Materials4948
61 Advanced Optical Materials4944
62 Carbohydrate Polymers4906
63 Journal of Materials Science4885
64 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices4857
65 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems4823
66 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters4796
67 ACS Applied Polymer Materials4772
68 Materials & Design4706
69 Building and Environment4627
70 Nano Energy4626
71 Advanced Healthcare Materials4605
72 Journal of Lightwave Technology4601
73 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing4470
74 Multimedia Tools and Applications4422
75 Macromolecules4388
76 CMC-Computers Materials & Continua4382
77 Surface & Coatings Technology4368
78 Composite Structures4358
79 Case Studies in Construction Materials4352
80 Polymer4327
81 Carbon4302
82 Polymer Composites4298
83 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials4249
84 Machines4245
85 Nano Research4205
86 Journal of Membrane Science4172
87 Energy and Buildings4164
88 Chemistry of Materials4158
89 Journal of Materials Chemistry B4098
90 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications4024
91 Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing3963
92 Journal of Manufacturing Processes3936
93 Engineering Failure Analysis3877
94 Diamond and Related Materials3808
95 Soft Matter3800
96 Electric Power Systems Research3776
97 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications3727
98 Acta Crystallographica A-Foundation and Advances3725
99 Crystal Growth & Design3721
100 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems3718
101 Vacuum3697
102 Sustainable Cities and Society3667
103 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology3658
104 Materials Characterization3644
105 Biosensors-Basel3642
106 IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity3636
107 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs3631
108 Journal of Materials Science & Technology3592
109 Biosensors & Bioelectronics3573
110 Advanced Engineering Materials3560
111 Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing3523
112 Acta Materialia3520
113 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control3517
114 Gels3506
115 Physica B-Condensed Matter3491
116 Advanced Materials Interfaces3478
117 Sensors and Actuators A-Physical3448
118 Results in Physics3430
119 Journal of the European Ceramic Society3407
120 CrystEngComm3401
121 ACS Applied Electronic Materials3362
- Advanced Materials Technologies3362
123 IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters3355
124 Pattern Recognition3307
125 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence3273
126 Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing3258
127 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems3219
128 Nanotechnology3196
129 Journal of Electronic Materials3123
130 European Polymer Journal3093
131 Membranes3056
132 Composites Part B-Engineering3045
133 Dyes and Pigments3041
134 Cytotherapy3013
135 IEEE Transactions on Communications3009
136 Corrosion Science2997
137 Computational Materials Science2993
138 Materials Research Express2964
139 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification2952
140 Acta Biomaterialia2947
141 Energy Storage Materials2934
142 Journal of the American Ceramic Society2898
143 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters2860
144 Optical and Quantum Electronics2842
145 JOM2816
146 Journal of Supercomputing2775
147 Small Methods2770
148 IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques2757
149 Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials2749
150 Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter2738
151 IEEE Electron Device Letters2715
152 Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics2711
153 Computers & Electrical Engineering2688
154 Progress in Organic Coatings2672
155 Journal of Nanobiotechnology2650
156 Additive Manufacturing2649
157 Laser & Photonics Reviews2642
158 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers2639
159 IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics2627
160 Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces2576
161 Physical Review Materials2575
162 Cellulose2573
163 International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control2569
164 ACS Energy Letters2514
165 Journal of Nuclear Materials2510
166 Journal of Constructional Steel Research2500
167 Signal Image and Video Processing2498
168 Nanoscale Advances2474
169 Materials Today Chemistry2446
170 Polymer Chemistry2441
171 Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering2424
172 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems2413
173 Ionics2407
174 ACS Sensors2405
175 Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology2362
176 Automatica2357
177 IEEE Transactions on Magnetics2339
178 International Journal of Nanomedicine2333
179 Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures2324
180 Biomacromolecules2316
181 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids2309
182 IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics2300
183 ACS Photonics2295
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters2295
185 Materials Horizons2287
186 International Journal of Fatigue2279
187 Computer Networks2260
188 Automation in Construction2259
189 Bioresources2252
190 Biomimetics2249
191 Frontiers in Materials2245
192 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering2214
193 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory2209
194 Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells2155
195 Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing2152
196 Biomaterials Science2146
197 IEEE Communications Magazine2140
198 Scripta Materialia2135
199 Silicon2107
200 ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering2106
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